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Show DOWN TO THE BARE FACTS Young Minister's Passion for Self-Sac-rifice Had Results That Might Have Been Anticipated. The announcement of Miss Helen Miller Gould's betrothal led one of the charity workers of New York to say: "Marriage itself will not be able to quench Miss Gould's passion for giv-i giv-i ing. Apropos to this passion, she once told me a story. "There was a young minister, the story ran, who, being poor and having hav-ing nothing else to give, used to give away his clothes. "The young minister's district contained con-tained many needy men, and he would give them shoes and socks, shirts and coats, gloves, overcoats and trousers. "Yes, time and again he would give away his clothes, foolishly and recklessly, reck-lessly, piece by piece, until " Here the charity worker smiled. "Until," she ended, "he came to himself!" |